Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

My wife thinks this is one of the best things I have ever made, and she may well be right. It is right up there with my Whole Wheat Buttermilk Blueberry Cream Cheese Scones. An evil treat that I love. Plus all major food groups are included: Grains (flour and oats) Fruits (raisins) Vegetables (carrots) Dairy (cream cheese) and Meat (eggs count). It must be good for you (NOT).

I had carrot cake for my birthday decided it would make an excellent cookie so off to Google again, and I came up with a Martha Stewart recipe. Not much work and almost no skills are needed to pull this off. Give it a try for an everyday treat or that special occasion.

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Notes: I wanted some cinnamon instead of a large dose of ginger. Other than that, I mostly stayed on task. The suggested cream cheese frosting ( which I loved) was about twice as much as needed. The recipe as posted reflects the 50% decrease. I did make them slightly bigger and did not make them into sandwiches like the recipes called for. I just frosted and ate.

Preheat oven on 350 convection. Prep two cookie sheets by covering with parchment paper. Finely shred one large or 2 smaller carrots to make 3/4 cup. Try not to use the “baby carrots”, they have no taste.

Make the frosting first. 4 oz cream cheese and 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter (without salt preferred) in a bowl. Microwave for 10-20 seconds to soften if needed but do not melt.

Spoon onto the parchment covered cookie sheets into 1-inch diameter balls. It should make about 16. Flatten the balls slightly with your fingers.

Place in the oven for 8 minutes. Rotate the pans (180 degrees and bottom pan to top). Cook another 7-8 minute until edges are turning brown.

Remove from oven and let set for about 2 minutes until they firm up a bit and then move to a cooling rack.

Let cool and then frost with the cream cheese frosting.

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Great Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting. An evil treat that my wife and I love.

Coursedessert

CuisineAmerican

Servings

Prep Time

16cookies

20minutes

Cook Time

16minutes

Servings

Prep Time

16cookies

20minutes

Cook Time

16minutes

Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Great Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting. An evil treat that my wife and I love.

Coursedessert

CuisineAmerican

Servings

Prep Time

16cookies

20minutes

Cook Time

16minutes

Servings

Prep Time

16cookies

20minutes

Cook Time

16minutes

Ingredients

Frosting

4ozcream cheese

2 1/2tablespoonsbutter

1teaspoonvanilla

1/2teaspoonlemon juice

1 1/4cuppowder sugar

Cookie Dough

1stick butter1/2 cup melted

1/2cuplight brown sugar

1/4cupsugar

1egg yoke

3/4cupAP flour

1/2teaspoonginger

1/2teaspooncinnamon

1/2teaspoonsalt

3/4cuprolled oats

3/4cupfinely grated carrot

1/3cupraisins

Servings: cookies

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Instructions

Preheat oven on 350 convection. Prep two cookie sheets by covering with parchment paper. Finely shred one large or 2 smaller carrots to make 3/4 cup. Try not to use the “baby carrots”, they have no taste.

Make the frosting first. 4 oz cream cheese and 2 1/2 tablespoons of butter (without salt preferred) in a bowl. Microwave for 10-20 seconds to soften if needed but do not melt.

Spoon onto the parchment covered cookie sheets into 1-inch diameter balls. It should make about 16. Flatten the balls slightly with your fingers.

Place in the oven for 8 minutes. Rotate the pans (180 degrees and bottom pan to top). Cook another 7-8 minute until edges are turning brown.

Remove from oven and let set for about 2 minutes until they firm up a bit and then move to a cooling rack.

Let cool and then frost with the cream cheese frosting.

Last Updated July 8, 2016

Nutrition Facts

Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Amount Per Serving

Calories 223Calories from Fat 99

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 11g17%

Saturated Fat 7g35%

Polyunsaturated Fat 0.3g

Monounsaturated Fat 2g

Cholesterol 37mg12%

Sodium 98mg4%

Potassium 57mg2%

Total Carbohydrates 31g10%

Dietary Fiber 1g4%

Sugars 22g

Protein 2g4%

Vitamin A32%

Vitamin C1%

Calcium1%

Iron5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

All nutritional information are estimates and can vary from your actual results. This is home cooking and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.

Sorry this is one recipe I have not converted from Blogger format to WordPress so it is a bit hard to read. The cooking temperature is 375 F or 190 C. The 180 degrees refers to rotating the pan half a turn. I’m converting the post now so it will look better to you. DrDan PS they are one of my favorite things

These are simply delicious! I made a double batch and they lasted less than a day with my family of five. I tweaked the recipe a little; substituting part margarine for the butter, increased the cinnamon and added a pinch of nutmeg. The results were fabulous. I added a couple drops of maple extract to the frosting recipe to satisfy my mothers craving for maple leaf cookies (which are impossible to find in my neck of the woods) and it did the trick!! These are definitely a “must add” to my recipe collection! Thank you for sharing.

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